Role & Importance of BRC Certification for Businesses

With the growing awareness through print and social media, consumers, government and consumer advocate groups are nowadays emphasizing more on the quality of the food. Due to increasing demand of high quality food among consumers, the retailers and food service providers are putting their best foot forward in assuring that their suppliers receive third-party certification with a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) approved scheme. BRC quality certification is a standard recognized by the GFSI and the world’s leading food retailers. It assures the all aspects of the food safety. It is a significant verification both the fulfilment of legal obligations and of customer protection.

Benefits of BRC certification

·         Its primary objective is to encourage and promote best practices to maintain the quality of food in food production, processing and delivery process.

·         It emphasizes on improving the supplier standards and consistency, which consequently prevents product failure.

·         With BRC certification, there is no need to get multiple audits of food manufacturers.

·         If a supplier gains BRC certification for food safety, it assures consumers that they are dealing with the company that reaches high levels of competence in all critical areas.

·         It assures that supplier take due diligence in monitoring and constantly improving the quality and safety of the food at all levels.

The BRC Standard helps in meeting the integrity of branded products. Whether you’re an established global supplier of packaged food materials or you have just stepped into the global food market, the standard will help to ensure your customers have trust in your products. By improving the safety of the product, the quality certification also helps companies in food sectors to reduce waste, complaints, recalls and rejected products through a cycle of constant improvement.BRC certification is supported by the retailers, brand owners, raw material processors and packaging manufacturers across the globe as benchmarked global food safety standard covering food safety and management of product quality in food packing and processing operations and they use it as a significant part of their supplier approval processes.